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SEE THE FUTURE STARS OF MUSIC AND FASHION

City Showcase, London’s leading festival for new music and fashion talent, takes place from 5-9thJune. All events are free and hundreds of artists will perform both day and night in venuesacross the city, styled by up-and-coming designers. Now established as a key date for musiclovers and industry talent spotters, City Showcase is a rare opportunity to see tomorrow’s futurestars for free. Launched in 2003, it has helped to discover artists such as Amy Winehouse, HotChip, Keane, Razorlight, Rooster and Sway, and this year will play host to some of the hottestnew emerging acts.

Other venues include The Apple Store in Regent Street, Café de Paris, Metro, The Garage andVirgin Megastore. City Showcase Fringe gigs will be held at various venues across Londonincluding Bar Academy, Barfly, Borderline, Market Place, The Bedford and IslingtonAcademy.

City Showcase covers a diverse range of music from indie bands and singer-songwriters to newurban and Asian talent, electronic producers and classical artists. Up-and-coming Chinese,Canadian, Australian and US artists will also be showcased. Most evenings will focus on aspecific genre, hosted by DJ tastemakers. In Kingly Court, just off Carnaby Street, Radio 1 DJsRas Kwame and Nihal & Bobby Friction present urban and Asian nights respectively. Industrybible Music Week is presenting the best of the new singer-songwriters and Classic FM presenterMyleene Klass will host an evening of new and emerging artists from across the classicalspectrum. Xfm hosts the rock night and Xfm DJ John Kennedy presents the indie night andX-posure Live. Finally the Market Place will hold hip hop and dance DJ competitions Designerswill be displaying their work too, modelled by the bands on stage, and shown in boutiques inCarnaby. Previous participants have gone on to become band stylists and have featured inLondon Fashion Week.

City Showcase is supported by the Performing Right Society who will play host to a week ofFREE industry seminars and networking sessions from their central London offices in BernersStreet. Leading industry speakers Guy Chambers, Xfm’s John Kennedy, Radio 1’s Nihal andRas Kwame, Rishi Rich, Nitin Sawhney and journalists from the Sunday Times and MusicWeek will offer advice on A&R, copyright, songwriting, production and marketing as well as topicalissues such as the DIY revolution.